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thymy

American  
[tahy-mee, thahy-mee] / ˈtaɪ mi, ˈθaɪ mi /

adjective

thymier, thymiest
  1. of, pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of thyme.

    a thymy fragrance.


Etymology

Origin of thymy

First recorded in 1720–30; thyme + -y 1

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Life of the woods, life of the rivers, life of the trees, Life of the rich plain-grasses that seed to the morning breeze, And the thymy mountain-grasses June makes loud with bees.

From Poems of London and Other Verses by Presland, John

And yet, O Sweet, you never knew Those downs, the thymy air That with your spirit haunted is— Yes, everywhere!

From Poems New and Old by Freeman, John

O'er thymy downs she bends her busy course, And many a stream allures her to its source.

From Poems by Rogers, Samuel

Will any one tell me whether the heathy flora of the moors, or the thymy flora of the chalk downs, were the earlier inhabitants of these isles? 

From Health and Education by Kingsley, Charles

We blessed them as they went their thymy way.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

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